 Hi, it's Brigitte. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Today, we're going to have some fun and a conversation from the afterlife with Gavin McLeod. Do you know who that is? You might be too young, or you might not recognize the name, but you would recognize the face of Captain Meryl Stubing from The Love Boat. Okay, I am so cheesy. I am so cheesy. I love those 70s, 80s sitcoms. I love them. I love them. And so Captain Meryl Stubing is definitely someone that I would like to channel. So we're going to have a conversation with him. Before we do that, I'm going to turn on the fan here. I'm actually in the greenhouse, but it's kind of warm here. Even though we're into September and it's going to get cooler as time goes on, but right now it's a little warm. Fan on, comfort level up, good. Okay, so Gavin, come on in. Let's have a conversation. He feels very theatrical. He feels like London theater, like stage acting. It feels as though he potentially has had some experience as a stage actor, as a theater actor is what it feels like to me. I see him kind of dramatic, like a dramatic actor, and I see some different roles when he was younger, it looks like. I also see him moving to different places. I feel like he may have lived abroad. I'm not sure, maybe as a child, maybe lived over there for a project or something that he did, like a film or something. And then I see him married more than once. It looks like twice, maybe. It looks like he has children from one marriage, one from the other or something, two or one. I'm not sure what that means. He might have some step kids that he considers children or he might be bragging about some grandkids. I'm not sure. So, I don't know that much about you, obviously, because I don't Google. If you're new here on Bob Life channel, you have to know I don't Google. I don't do that. You guys can do that. You want to know about him? You just go Google. You find all the details. I like to talk to afterlife celebrity guests about stuff that matters to me, like that we need to know about life. Like this isn't a gossip channel. This is like, tell us some info about the afterlife so that we can be better people. We can live our lives more fully, etc. All right. So, Gavin, it is a pleasure to meet you. I do love the love vote, for sure. Can you share with us any kinds of interesting insights or experiences that you may have had during the filming of that particular television show that would be interesting to us, perhaps? He's saying that daytime drama. It's like he's showing me, I'm like soap operas. Did you appear in a soap opera? It feels like he did. It feels like he did. And then I feel like as it asks the world turns, I'm not good with all those soap operas. I only watched you guys. I watched General Hospital, and Young and the Restless a little bit way early on, like when I was a teenager and stuff. And then General Hospital's like all the time my ride or die. And then all my days, I watched days. I started watching days in college, and then I kind of watched it off and on every once in a while. All right. So I feel like he was on a soap opera. So he's showing me like daytime dramas. So was Love Boat supposed to be more of a dramatic series? He says, well, I don't know that that was the intention necessarily. He said, but we dealt with some serious issues. We were able to have some very serious conversations and serious topics that he's talking about like drug abuse and dealing with when he's saying body issues or image, body image issues. Then maybe one of the characters had that and struggled with that. Not the characters, but one of the actors or actresses may have struggled with that, and he was aware of that. So yeah, that feels right. That kind of feels right. Like some things amongst the cast. So, but he's sharing like a camaraderie, a kinship. It didn't go as expected, he's saying. He said, we didn't necessarily think that Love Boat would last as long as it did, he said. So there's kind of the sense of we're going to do this. It's going to be something that we're going to do for a year or two. And then we're going to move on or that it wouldn't have as much popularity as it actually did have. So he's sharing kind of this gratitude about it. But he's showing me stage acting like that's where his heart is. But it's weird because I don't necessarily see him on Broadway. So I'm not sure what theater he would be in. I don't know if it's in LA or if it's literally London. Because I keep seeing overseas or some kind of an overseas connection. I don't know if it's his family that lives overseas. I don't know if he lived overseas as a child or if he had a military family or something that they moved around, you know, that might be a thing. Not sure exactly what I'm seeing, but I do see overseas and he keeps bringing me over there. She keeps sharing with me the theater, the theater. So perhaps he had a... Maybe somebody in the family was in the theater. That might be something that he might be referring to. So Gavin, if I may call you Gavin, can you share with us since your death has been in the last few months or so, what about the afterlife is different than maybe you might have expected? You know, like we kind of have some expectations of the afterlife. I mean, I do probably, if I really think about it, how is the afterlife maybe different from your expectations? He's saying, I wouldn't say I was a religious person specifically, but I did believe in God and higher power. And I think it's important to recognize and have gratitude, he says, for your life, for the opportunities you're given, for the experiences that you've had, the good and the bad. And he's saying, I had opportunities. He's saying he's sharing that he had opportunities and he does have a really big sense of gratitude. And the most important thing he says was, I didn't want to have regret. I did not want to have regret in my life. And so did you? So I'm asking you about the afterlife and your perspective. And he's saying that you still have access to, he says, I still have access to the memories of my life in reflection, he says. But it doesn't hurt me. It doesn't touch me deeply or cut me deeply in a sensitive way. It doesn't feel the same way. It's not a feeling or an emotion. It's more of an energetic recognition. And so the biggest lesson, he says, is to not have regrets. He says in love in my love life, that would be the one place where I could have been a better husband. I could have been a better father. I mean, there are definitely things I feel like I could have done better for my family, for the people that love me. But at the same time, I did the best I could. And they were quite understanding of me, of that. I'm not suggesting that I was a bad person in any way. He's not saying that he was like this bad guy or anything like that. But he's definitely giving me this vibe of like classic old Hollywood where it was kind of an old boys club and that there were liberties that could be taken, especially with young actors, actresses. He says and, you know, parties and such and things. And he says there's not really a good way to describe that. It's come out about many of the misbehaviors of Hollywood, people in Hollywood. He's showing me that, he's showing me like this battle with depression or that somebody in his life also had dementia or Alzheimer's. Okay. So Gavin McLeod, somebody in his life had Alzheimer's or dementia. I don't think it was him. I think it's somebody else connected to him. It feels like a woman. It's what it feels like. And he's saying, he's talking about work ethic. Okay, so tell me about that. That's a really good topic for us as humans, right? Work ethic. Because it's touted as like this thing like, oh, you have such a good work ethic. Oh, good on you. Work can rely on you. But what about your family? What about your family? Can your family rely on you? Or is it just work that can count on you to show up for that? So this is a hot topic. Work ethic. Tell us about work ethic. So from your human perspective and from the afterlife perspective, can you talk about that? He says it was always ingrained in me to be a hard worker, to be dedicated, to show up and give your all and do your best and not to accept defeat or failure that it was just not the right fit for you and just to keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. And if the door was closed, you keep knocking and you keep pushing at it until it opens. You know, he says you can't give up. That's the work ethic. You don't give up. You don't give up. You keep working harder. You take additional classes. You do things to grow yourself as a person, not just as an actor, but as a person and you don't belittle any opportunity that you have to practice your craft. He really feels like he really respected acting and theater and has this incredible career and profession that to be honored is how he feels. And so the work ethic is important. He says there are so many others that this is a job like none other. He says because you have one opportunity to really make something incredible and others are relying upon you for your part. And it's not just about you. It's about the entire ensemble, the cast, the story, the director. You really have this incredible weight upon you to bring the story to life and to help others feel what the characters would feel as if they were real people and to be known by the audience. And so the work ethic is this devotion to understanding the intimate details of the story and the feeling of it, the feeling. He's saying the feeling. So does work ethic mean you work all the time and you aren't at home or you don't do other things? You only work? Like what does work ethic to you? What does ethic mean? Because to me I think ethically, like what is ethical about that? What's the balancing? What's the boundaries? That kind of a thing. He says I think it's different from my generation, he says. My generation, it feels much more like the expectations and the opportunities that we're given, that our parents weren't given. Remember, you know, we're children of the depression. And so it's a different, it's a different type of, let me turn on my light here. I'm noticing that it's getting really dark in here. Just a minute. I'm gonna turn on the light here. Let's get some light going here. I told you the sun is going down. Okay, so we have a little bit of light. Right, we have this golden light. Oh, okay. He says we were raised by parents who lived through really difficult times. And so there's this understanding that you can't take life for granted. You can't take life for granted. And so the work ethic isn't really about a choice for me, he says, about my family or my job. It's about respecting the whole of the project or whatever you're working on and really being dedicated to that common shared mission. That's what work ethic is to me. It's like showing up and being part of a team and delivering something that is so incredibly moving or touching or human that others can actually feel it. As if it were them happening to them or as a friend and they feel it. That's the feeling of it. So that's really, wow, that's really good. Okay, all right. Interesting. Because I see it like a kind of a choice. Well, I have a good work ethic. What does that mean? You give your all the work and then you're not available at home and he's not showing that at all. He's showing me this kind of devotion to the art. And he's not talking about relationship at all in regards to work ethic. So it's not a choice of your family or your job. It's not that. That's my own perception. That's Bridget's Lensing about work ethic. Okay. Beautiful. That was really thank you for that. And he's showing me though that the most important thing, this is Gavin McLeod. So he was Captain Meryl Stubing on the love boat. That's how I know him. I'm sure he had other roles, but that's how I know him, you guys. And he's sharing that his, the biggest thing from his life experience was about regrets. Like he did not want to have regrets. He did not want to leave something undone. There was an opportunity and I missed it or I didn't take it. I couldn't forgive myself because you never really know what could come of a role, of an opportunity. And you just really needed to say yes a lot more than you said no. And that means doing a lot of things at the same time, maybe, or at the same time he says like once, once you're committed, like I was committed to love boat. I had to make sure that I was there in present work ethic wise. He says for that group, that project. But did I maybe lose some other opportunities? Yes. Perhaps I did. But do I regret that? No, I do not. I do not regret that. I do. I really do not regret that. He says. So, all right. Good. Okay. All right. So did you have a favorite on the love boat? Like who is your favorite character? Not actor, but character. And he's showing me Doc. Yeah. So he was friends with, so the actor, I can't think of the actor's name. Oh, it was Dr. Adam Bricker was the character's name. And they seemed to be friends on the, as time went on in the show, they seemed to become friends or be really good friends. Like trustworthy. Did that extend beyond the actual character interaction? Yes. He says that reflected a real life friendship. He says yes. Yes. Very much. Very much. He says yes. That comes through. He says as an actor, then you use that. You use all of the experiences you have. And if you have real relationships with others that you're working with, and you can utilize that, and they can come through on screen as a very real and authentic friendship, then that's how you use that. You use that. He says you need to use that. That's great. That makes it more real for people. That makes people feel like part of the crew. He says so. All right. That's great. All right. So with that, we have had a conversation with Gavin McLeod from the Love Boot. That's how I know him. You can go ahead and put other movies or TV shows or how you know, Gavin McLeod yourself or his work. You can go ahead and share that below. Remember, I do not Google up or look up on the Internet any kinds of details about the actors or actresses. Usually I don't do that. If I do, I'll tell you before when I'm doing the channel, because that's not what we do on a both-life channel. I'm not here to be like a journalist and tell you all the data and the facts and the drama and all that. I'm here to talk to the afterlife celebrity about human life, to get insights for you and I so we can live our lives better. Because the whole goal here on a both-life channel is to inspire your spirit to fill you with hope because this is your life. It's yours and you get to live it. Just live it. This is Bridget. Thanks so much for being here. Before you leave, make sure you like and subscribe to the channel and check for notifications. You can come here on Mondays and you can find a new channeling video every Monday. And don't miss the Sunday morning coffee podcast with Bridget on Sundays. If you're looking for me on social media, you can find me at Bridget inspired on Instagram, Bridget inspired on Facebook as well.